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Re: **INPUT NEEDED*** 1500 colony operation

Originally Posted by JWChesnut

The issue is he gets a call at 6:30 over dinner pm saying, "We will be spraying at 4 AM". He has to work all night running multiple loads, would work better with a second truck and driver, but that more investment and another hire.

My call came in at 10pm saying we sprayed you need to get your bee's out. It took us 2 hours to get there and we just made it out by sunrise. Now if we had not dropped everything and ran to pick them up they all would have been dead when they went to the flowers in the morning. Too close a call for me last year.

Re: **INPUT NEEDED*** 1500 colony operation

I'm not commercial, but I think your advisor is probably correct. If it was true that in 3 years a business could reach a net profit of $340K there would be a giant wave of people scrambling to reach that golden ring. I'd guess that you're probably off by a factor of 3, and perhaps more. Not trying to pour water on your plan, just don't think it is consistent with economic realities. Best of luck.